Parma delicatessen trading since 1952 on family recipes passed down through generations. The counter stocks regional cured meats, cheeses and wines representing the city's food traditions.
Best for Family-recipe Parma cured meats and cheese since 1952.
This Parma laboratory hand-makes fresh pasta the traditional way, from erbetta and pumpkin tortelli to Christmas anolini and gnocchi, with no industrial machinery. Two direct-sale shops on Piazza Ghiaia and Via Silvio Pellico also carry ready-cooked Parmesan dishes.
Best for Fresh pasta, tortelli, anolini, Parma gastronomy
Founded in 1899 in Piazza di Basilicanova near Parma by brothers Marcellino and Callisto Mutti, descendants of a family that had farmed tomatoes locally since the 1800s, this company registered its Due Leoni trademark in 1911 and won gold at Rome's International Industry and Agriculture Exhibition that year.
Best for Italian passata, peeled tomatoes and tomato concentrate
Mutti's tomato business traces back to Giovanni Mutti (1804-1894), a Piazza di Basilicanova farmer near Parma noted for applying early crop-rotation techniques to his land. In 1899, his nephews Marcellino and Callisto Mutti took the family's tomato growing into commercial processing, founding the company under the name Fratelli Mutti (Mutti Brothers) to preserve and sell tomato products at scale rather than sell the raw crop. The young company built its reputation quickly: in 1911 it registered its Due Leoni (Two Lions) trademark and won a First-Class Gold Medal at the International Industry and Agriculture Exhibition in Rome that same year, an early public validation of its processing methods in the tomato-growing heartland of the Po Valley. The company has remained headquartered in Basilicanova, in the province of Parma, an area whose soil and climate are associated with high-quality processing tomatoes, and continues to be controlled by the Mutti family more than a century after its founding, now selling passata, peeled tomatoes and other tomato products internationally under the Mutti name and the Due Leoni mark.
This Strada Garibaldi deli, founded in the 1950s, specialises in the Parma canon: Parmigiano Reggiano aged from 14 to 100 months, prosciutto di Parma, culatello and Felino salame. Everything is sold over the counter and shipped nationwide through the online shop.
Best for Parmigiano Reggiano, Parma ham, culatello, deli